Improvement in shoe-last fasteners



S. BR JMLEY;

SHOE LAST-FASTENERJ.

Patented Feb- 27, 1877.

sA'M-UEL BRUML'EY, 0F Jonnssonoguen, morass, Assisi-son OF-PART OF HISRIGHT TO ELISHA W. I' EMB ERTO l'-AND oYRUsL. rEMaERTon, 0F

SAME PLACE,"

IMPROVEMENT l N SHOE-LAST FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 187,807, datedFebruary 27, 1877; application filed September 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BRUMLEY, of Jonesborough, in the county ofGrant and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Shoe-Last Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the followingis afull,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figurel of the drawings is arepresentation of side elevation of myshoe-last. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of said last, showing mydevice in position. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same, showing theinstep-cutting, the lockingplate, and the cavity beneath. Fig. 4 is abottom view of the instep-piece. Fig. 5 is a shoe-last hook.

My invention is a shoe-last fastener; and consists in the construction,arrangemen t, and operation of the following peculiar elements aspring-lever catch suitably pivoted within a cavity made into the underside of the instep piece, and the upper end of which communicates withthe usual last-hook hole, and the lower end engages with alocking-plate, which is suitably fastened over a cavity made in the topof the usual instep-cuttin g of the footpiece of the last, and the abovecatch acting in concert with the usual dowel-pin at the toe and a guideknob or plate at the heel of said cutting, all of which and theirpurposes are hereinafter more fully described, and illustrated by theaccompanying drawings, in which the same letters represent identicalparts of my device in the difierent figures respectively.

The letter A represents the foot-piece of the said last; B, theinstep-piece, and a the said cutting which parts the said instep fromthe said foot-piece. The letter 0 represents the said lever-catch, whichconsists of a metallic flat and vertical bar, pierced through the middlewith a suitable pivot-hole, having also a groove cut into the front edgeof its upper end, so as to form said end into the hook In and providedalso with a rectangular foot-piece, e, beveled on its rear edge, all asshown. Said piece B has a suitable cavity, f, cut into its base, asshown, and reaching as far up as to open into the usual'transverse holefor the last-hook D, when used to remove saidinstep piece. Within saidcavity f the said lever O is suitably pivoted at m, as shown, so thatits hook b will be within the said last-hook hole, and its said foothang within another cavity, g, cut into the surface of the said cuttingaof the foot-piece A directly beneath the aforesaid cavity f, as shown.A spiral spring, 8, is also introduced and fastened within said cavity fso that one end of it shall press upon the inner end of said foot 0,thereby constantly keeping the lower end of said lever O forced to therear of the two cavities, when placed together as shown, and the hookpart I) also forced toward the front of the said last-hook hole;Suitably fastened over the cavity g, as shown, is a metallic plate, m,having cut into the middle of its front edge a beveled slot, withinwhich the said beveled edge of the lever-foot 6 slides until caughtbeneath. Into the front end of the said cutting aof the footpiece A isfastened one-half of the usual dowel-pin p, and also into the rear endof the same'cutting a projecting knob or pin-head, a, the former toinsert into a suitable hole in the front end and the latter into a slot,'0, in the rear end of the said instep-piece B, for the purposes ofguides in the joining, and of additional preventives to lateral motionof said parts A and B.

When my device has been constructed and adjusted as above described thetwo parts A and B are firmly locked together, as follows:

Place the instep-piece A over the said cutting a, so that the (towel 12will pass into its said hole; then bring the slot '0 over the knob orpin-head n, and press the said instep down, when the said beveled edgeof the le ver-foot 0 will slide over and catch under the saidlever-spring s, keeping the said foot in place, and preventing anyvertical movement,

while the said pin-head o and dowel 1) prevent any lateral motion. 7

To unlock said part B from A, push the end of the last-hook D into thesaid transverse hole of the instep, which engages and presses back thelever-hook b, which, consequently, moves forward the lever-foot e andLdi'sengages it from the slotj f'of the lo'ckplate my thereby allowingthe said separation to*"be readily made. Therefore What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The lever-catch 0, provided with the hook j b, the foot e,and the spring8, adapted to be pivoted Within the cavity f of the insteppiece B, incombination with the slotted lockplate m, the dowel p, and the knob orpin;

substantially ndv pr P poses pebified m A a 1 t w: hl' testimony that Iclaim the above I hav hereunto subscribed my name in the presence "oftwowitnesses.

sAMUE ,BRUMLEY.

Witnesses: I

OSCAR A. Wrcxnnsrrmv, ELIHU W. PEMBERTON.

